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Add a concept of "placeholder" variables to the planner. These are variables

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that represent some expression that we desire to compute below the top level
of the plan, and then let that value "bubble up" as though it were a plain
Var (ie, a column value).

The immediate application is to allow sub-selects to be flattened even when
they are below an outer join and have non-nullable output expressions.
Formerly we couldn't flatten because such an expression wouldn't properly
go to NULL when evaluated above the outer join.  Now, we wrap it in a
PlaceHolderVar and arrange for the actual evaluation to occur below the outer
join.  When the resulting Var bubbles up through the join, it will be set to
NULL if necessary, yielding the correct results.  This fixes a planner
limitation that's existed since 7.1.

In future we might want to use this mechanism to re-introduce some form of
Hellerstein's "expensive functions" optimization, ie place the evaluation of
an expensive function at the most suitable point in the plan tree.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane
2008-10-21 20:42:53 +00:00
parent 831abae506
commit e6ae3b5dbf
28 changed files with 1135 additions and 226 deletions
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src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c,v 1.244 2008/10/04 21:56:53 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c,v 1.245 2008/10/21 20:42:53 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ planner_hook_type planner_hook = NULL;
#define EXPRKIND_RTFUNC 2
#define EXPRKIND_VALUES 3
#define EXPRKIND_LIMIT 4
#define EXPRKIND_APPINFO 5
#define EXPRKIND_AUXINFO 5
static Node *preprocess_expression(PlannerInfo *root, Node *expr, int kind);
@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ standard_planner(Query *parse, int cursorOptions, ParamListInfo boundParams)
glob->finalrtable = NIL;
glob->relationOids = NIL;
glob->invalItems = NIL;
glob->lastPHId = 0;
glob->transientPlan = false;
/* Determine what fraction of the plan is likely to be scanned */
@ -273,6 +274,7 @@ subquery_planner(PlannerGlobal *glob, Query *parse,
root->cte_plan_ids = NIL;
root->eq_classes = NIL;
root->append_rel_list = NIL;
root->placeholder_list = NIL;
root->hasRecursion = hasRecursion;
if (hasRecursion)
@ -378,7 +380,10 @@ subquery_planner(PlannerGlobal *glob, Query *parse,
root->append_rel_list = (List *)
preprocess_expression(root, (Node *) root->append_rel_list,
EXPRKIND_APPINFO);
EXPRKIND_AUXINFO);
root->placeholder_list = (List *)
preprocess_expression(root, (Node *) root->placeholder_list,
EXPRKIND_AUXINFO);
/* Also need to preprocess expressions for function and values RTEs */
foreach(l, parse->rtable)
@ -656,7 +661,12 @@ inheritance_planner(PlannerInfo *root)
subroot.parse = (Query *)
adjust_appendrel_attrs((Node *) parse,
appinfo);
subroot.returningLists = NIL;
subroot.init_plans = NIL;
/* We needn't modify the child's append_rel_list */
subroot.placeholder_list = (List *)
adjust_appendrel_attrs((Node *) root->placeholder_list,
appinfo);
/* There shouldn't be any OJ info to translate, as yet */
Assert(subroot.join_info_list == NIL);
@ -2046,7 +2056,7 @@ make_subplanTargetList(PlannerInfo *root,
* Vars; they will be replaced by Params later on).
*/
sub_tlist = flatten_tlist(tlist);
extravars = pull_var_clause(parse->havingQual, false);
extravars = pull_var_clause(parse->havingQual, true);
sub_tlist = add_to_flat_tlist(sub_tlist, extravars);
list_free(extravars);
*need_tlist_eval = false; /* only eval if not flat tlist */